Die Grundlagen der literarischen Kritik bei Joseph Addison ...

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Druck von R. Wagner Sohn, 1906 - 67 Seiten

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Seite 58 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Seite 27 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Seite 46 - When we look on such hideous objects, we are not a little pleased to think we are in no danger of them*. We consider them, at the same time, as dreadful and harmless ; so that, the more frightful appearance they make, the greater is the pleasure we receive from the sense of our own safety.
Seite 46 - English theatre, is one of the most monstrous inventions that ever entered into a poet's thoughts. An author might as well think of weaving the adventures of Aeneas and Hudibras into one poem, as of writing such a motley piece of mirth and sorrow. But the absurdity of these performances is so very visible, that I shall not insist upon it. The same objections which are made to tragicomedy, may, in some measure, be applied to all tragedies that have a double...
Seite 58 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Seite 21 - ... who by the mere strength of natural parts, and without any assistance of art or , learning, have produced works that were the delight ! - !p>.
Seite 26 - But this is certain, that a noble writer should be born with this faculty in its full strength and vigour, so as to be able to receive lively ideas from outward objects, to retain them long, and to range them together, upon occasion, in such figures and representations, as are most likely to hit the fancy of the reader.
Seite 45 - As a perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature, so it is capable of giving the mind one of the most delightful and most improving / entertainments. A virtuous man (says Seneca)^ struggling with misfortunes, is such a spectacle as gods might look upon with pleasure ; and such a pleasure it is which one meets with in the representation of a well-written tragedy.
Seite 39 - Ne pueros coram populo Medea trucidet, Aut humana palam coquat exta nefarius Atreus, Aut in avem Procne vertatur, Cadmus in anguem. Quodcunque ostendis mihi sic incredulus odi.
Seite 31 - And poets may be allowed the like liberty for describing things which really exist not, if they are founded on popular belief. Of this nature are fairies, pigmies, and the extraordinary effects of magic; for it is still an imitation, though of other men's fancies: and thus are Shakespeare's Tempest, his Midsummer Night's Dream, and Ben Jonson's Masque of Witches to be defended.

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